South front of Burlington House

In 1867 (after a decade of the Royal Academy was given a home in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London, where it remains to this day. Burlington House was built in 1664 as a private mansion for a wealthy lawyer to receive his new bride. When he put it up for sale after just four years, the building was passed among several earls, dukes and lords, and then was bought by the government in 1854. The state then offered the building to the Royal Academy at an annual rent of £1 for 999 years. This photo captures the building in (we think) the same decade that the RA moved in.